Re:USA tried to pay Germans so coronavirus cure vaccine woul...
by zimpenfish on Monday March 16, 2020 @03:05AM
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"In a normal presidency, any one of these scandals would have sunk it but with Trump, we get a new one every week and nothing."
(I forget but probably someone on Lawyers,Guns,Money.)
[edit: too many "any"]
What do you think are going to be the actual repercussions, in the US, of learning that the US president is trying to secure exclusive US control of a vaccine for COVID19 for priority distribution in the US?
They aren't going to be any. Indeed, to his base, stuff like this is exactly why they voted for him. (If Trump had succeeded in securing that vaccine solely for the US, he would win in November in a landslide.) And that's pretty much the extent of the calculations that went on in his head when he attempted this stunt.
It's a good thing he failed. But let's be responsible about disclosure and time it so that he can't derive any political benefit from it.